A61B 5/0077
Devices for viewing the surface of the body
Official title: {Devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens}
A61B5/0077 (Devices for viewing the surface of the body) appears on 3,972 US grants and 6,311 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,972
- Published applications
- 6,311
- Assignees
- 2,247
- Inventors
- 10,840
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 4 | 9 |
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| 2011 | 9 | 32 |
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| 2013 | 38 | 141 |
| 2014 | 59 | 286 |
| 2015 | 103 | 248 |
| 2016 | 159 | 469 |
| 2017 | 217 | 454 |
| 2018 | 253 | 454 |
| 2019 | 378 | 502 |
| 2020 | 385 | 596 |
| 2021 | 402 | 619 |
| 2022 | 386 | 589 |
| 2023 | 452 | 549 |
| 2024 | 409 | 501 |
| 2025 | 426 | 440 |
| 2026 | 228 | 261 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wearable medical module for wound treatment, imaging, monitoring and analysis based on images of wound6 Oct 2026US 12,751,663 B2Preh Holdings, LLC
- Blood vessel visualization apparatus, blood vessel puncture system, and observation window member29 Sep 2026US 12,745,909 B2Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Intraoral scanner29 Sep 2026US 12,745,910 B2Luminx Il Ltd
- Surgical navigation with stereovision and associated methods22 Sep 2026US 12,740,739 B2Trustees of Dartmouth College
- Clinical fitting assistance using software analysis of stimuli22 Sep 2026US 12,740,746 B2Cochlear Limited
- Image positioning for diagnostic images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305983 A1Welch Allyn, Inc.
- Parkinson's tremor classification using machine learning8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306010 A1Genzyme Corporation
- Image capture for optical viewing devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294216 A1
- Tissue detection systems and methods1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294252 A1Medtronic, Inc.
- Automated skin condition evaluation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294331 A1Eli Lilly and Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mesh network personal emergency response appliance694US 7,733,224 B22010
- Biometric monitoring device having a body weight sensor, and methods of operating same576US 8,475,367 B1Fitbit, Inc. · 2013
- Cuffless blood pressure monitoring appliance401US 7,539,532 B22009
- Driver health and fatigue monitoring system and method391US 8,725,311 B1American Vehicular Sciences LLC · 2014
- Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging and characterization of skin tissue371US 6,208,749 B1Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc. · 2001